Zoom reaches $85m settlement over 'Zoombombing
Zoombombing is where outsiders hijack Zoom meetings and display pornography, use racist language or post other disturbing content
You Anon: Can fake accounts save the internet?
Many of the internet’s most powerful firms owe their success to our identities, from which they’ve extracted billions of dollars of value
Bezos’ rocket company
loses challenge to
Musk’s SpaceX
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company carried him to the edge of space last week. But it won’t be flying NASA astronauts to the moon’s surface, at least for now
Indigenous archaeologist tracks down missing children
Kisha Supernant has brought radar technology to the search for burial sites in Canada while she works to reshape her profession’s relationship with Indigenous communities
Russia fines Google 3m
rbls for violating data law
The penalty comes amid a wider standoff between Russia and Big Tech, with Moscow routinely fining social media giants for failing to remove banned content
A new term needed
for video games
People are seeing a ton of new games, and many of them blur the lines between video games and other types of activities
Facebook and tech giants to target far-right militias in database
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism's (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list
QR codes are here to stay
QR codes — essentially a kind of bar code that allows transactions to be touchless, have emerged as a permanent tech fixture from the COVID-19 pandemic
Bezos offers NASA $2bn for moon mission contract
He is offering NASA up to $2bn if his rocket company is given a contract for a second human landing system to Earth’s nearest neighbour
Facebook to work on 'metaverse'
Facebook is creating a product team to work on the "metaverse," where people can move between different devices and communicate in a virtual environment
